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Changes in methods and displays for the 2001-02 posting

Comparison institutions: Six more AAU U.S. publics were available for the 3-year salary analysis this year: Minnesota, SUNY-Buffalo, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UC-San Diego, and UC-Santa Barbara. The comparison list now includes 30 of the 34 AAU US publics. The remaining four are CU-Boulder, new AAU members Texas A&M and SUNY-Stony Brook (we'll add them to the comparison list when three years of data are available), and Rutgers, which we exclude from all faculty salary comparisons due to a faculty union situation.

• All figures on the 2001-02 site, including those for 99-00 and 00-01, use all 30 comparison institutions.
• The addition of six institutions caused the 99-00 and 00-01 AAU averages reported on this site to differ from those reported in prior postings. The six have higher than average salaries, so in general the prior-year all-institution averages have increased -- by $800 to $1000 for the all-ranks averages.
• Therefore, to check the standing of CU-Boulder colleges and departments relative to AAU publics over time, use the prior-year figures from this (the 2001-02) site. Do not combine figures from this site with those from postings made in prior years.
• If you're interested only in CU-Boulder's all campus average versus the same set of peers see Faculty Compensation at CU-Boulder Over Time, Compared to Other AAU U.S. Public Universities.

Associating CU-Boulder faculty with departments: In past years this association has been based on department of hire or tenure offer. Starting in 01-02 we are using current roster department. For most faculty these two are the same, but some departments (e.g., Ethnic Studies) have several currently rostered members whose hiring or tenure offer was in a different department. We have not regenerated CU-Boulder data for 00-01 or prior using this new rule. We apologize for the noncomparability over time this introduces for some departments. The effect is nil at the college and campus level.

Matching AAU-institution departments to CU-Boulder departments: While we used the same method this year, some institutions reorganized (e.g., Maryland combined several foreign language departments) or found errors in past discipline designations (e.g., Berkeley's electrical engineering was classified before this year as "engineering technologies"). We changed back AAU data where we could. See Sources and Calculation Methods, section on 2001-02, for details.

For the first time this year we report CU-Boulder percent salary increases by contract type and rank, for individuals with same contract type and rank over the past two years. See Display A2.

Median AAU salaries are reported for the second year, in Display G. Other displays use means only.

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